Bumblebee looks like good fun.
Sort of like if the first movie in this series didn’t have the chaff. Wonder if this does well if maybe they’ll reconsider doing a finale movie. The Last Knight is the only one to end on such an egregious cliffhanger.

The evil robot goddess is planning some stuff with Unicron, who is still emerging out of Earth and still a threat.

I mean, but both this and Age of Extinction ended with some of the robots leaving Earth, but that was more played off in a “this must be done” way. Rather than setting up something like Unicron even more. The entire movie was build-up.

(When I say more to it I mean the deeper messages about the nature of play, not the reveals of what’s happening in the ‘real world’ - which I think was pretty much played out by the end of the first film.)

Just looking at the synopsis, it seems like it might be too complicated for it’s own good (as a movie), but that may have been what attracted him to the project?

I quite like the books, but I don’t have high hopes for the movie. Casting Holland and Ridley wasn’t a great move. Not because they aren’t fine actors, but because the one of the main themes of the books deals with children fighting men’s wars. The characters they are playing are meant to be like 13 or 14 years old. Holland can still pass for about 16, but the movie definitely should have cast actual kids in the movie. Then add in all the craziness with the Noise and whatnot and I just don’t know that I see the movie working at all.

Wait, I don’t understand. This actually looks… alright? Verging on good? And the robot modes actually look like something other than a random assemblage of scrap metal. Could… could this actually be worth watching?